he Georgia State Railroad Museum is located in downtown Savannah, Georgia, on the site of the former Central of Georgia Railway heavy shops and terminal facilities. After the Southern Railway absorbed the Central in 1963, the site was transferred to the City of Savannah. Formerly known as the Roundhouse Railroad Museum, the site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and by 1989 was developed into a railroad museum by the non-profit Coastal Heritage Society in cooperation with Savannah. Together with the adjacent former Central of Georgia station and train shed, the entire area is designated as a Historic Landmark District. The railroad structures at the museum site include a partial roundhouse with operating 85' turntable, partial machine shop, tender frame shop, blacksmith shop, boiler house, storehouse and print shop, lumber and planning sheds, coach and paint shops, and a partial carpentry shop which now houses the Savannah Childrens Museum. The museum maintains a collection of former Central of Georgia locomotives and rolling stock, as well as equipment from other railroads with ties to the coastal Georgia region. Operating steam and diesel motive power, restored and maintained onsite, are used to tranport visitors on a short ride across the grounds.